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Re: floor problems

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  • Subject: [mg8246] Re: [mg8113] floor problems
  • From: seanross at worldnet.att.net
  • Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 21:17:03 -0400
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Sergio Rojas wrote:
> 
> : In[13]:=
> : InputForm[.7 10 67-469]
> : Out[13]//InputForm=
> : 0.
> : In[12]:=
> : InputForm[10 67 .7-469]
> : Out[12]//InputForm=
> : -5.684341886080801*^-14
> 
>   Why this does not happen in Mathematica:
> 
> In[9]:= $Version
> 
> Out[9]= DEC OSF/1 Alpha 2.2 (September 9, 1994)
> 
> In[10]:= InputForm[.7 10 67-469]
> 
> Out[10]//InputForm= 0.
> 
> In[11]:= InputForm[10 67 .7-469]
> 
> Out[11]//InputForm= 0.


Wonderful!  Your unix based system works more consistently than a
pentium based windows machine(no real surprise there).  A programming
language can never be better than the system to which it sends function
calls.


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